Right, I last put up a blog post 10 days ago while cruising along the Great Ocean Road. I have since wrapped up my big road trip and am counting down the hours to boarding the plane home. But pictures tell the story best so here we go!

 Plenty of neat lighthouses along the Great Ocean Road, unfortunately this one was closed due to bull ants calling the balcony home and wreaking havoc on visitors haha

 Watched some surfing

 Then I drove up to the Snowy Mountains and back into New South Wales

 I did a rock climbing course while in the Snowies! It was a ton of fun and quite humbling as my instructor was 81 years old and easily showing me up, even with me being a foot taller than him too yet! Sorry no pictures as many of my instructor's past student had dropped their phones from the top of the cliffs

 Camped one night here in the mountains alongside a river and man was it cold sleeping in my car! I wimped out after that and stayed in a hostel the rest of my time there

 Left on a frosty morning to conquer the great Mount Kosciuszko

 Some very rocky ridgelines along the hike

And made it to the top!

 View from the summit

 Mandatory selfie from the summit haha

 Some lovely glacial lakes along the hike too that are full of snowy river trout, or so I'm told. I'm not much of a fisherman, give me a good steak

 See that giant mountain in the middle? That's Mount Kosciuszko, not exactly Everest but still great! And now I can say I've climbed Australia's highest mountain

 Spent an afternoon in Canberra and did another quick visit to the War Memorial there

 Quite a pretty view of the city, much better than the view from the car, not a super fun city to drive through.

 After WWII, Australia built a monument to commemorate the Americans who came to their aid, it's an eagle with the wings in the shape of a V for victory, but the locals just call the monument Bugs Bunny haha

 Spent the weekend in Cowra, this area feels like my second home and I'm excited to start work again. Walked through the park and saw plenty of kangaroos

 And I feel very silly because I rode the train to Sydney on Monday, spent the night in the airport, and went to check in before finally realizing I had come a day early! So rather than sleep in the airport again I found myself a hostel in the city. This is the view from the balcony

And this is the view from my dormitory window.

And now I'm going to go enjoy sleeping in a nice bed before boarding the plane!

Well my phone has finally decided to let me post all my pictures! So get ready for a whole bunch of them

Last I posted I was up near Cairns in the Daintree, now I'm down on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria

 Rainforest meets the sea

 Lots of crocs! I went to a place called Hartleys Crocodile Farm, super cool place!

 Let's play a game of spot the croc!

 Make it easy for you this time, this is in the crocodile farm part, theres about 50 little crocs in this pen

This guy has a crooked nose haha

 These snakes are massive!!! One is an anaconda, I forget what the other big fella is

 This guy is cute though

 Same with this one haha, hes just hanging out

 Very manly little frog

 This guy is an inland Taipan,  the most venomous snake in Australia!

 Haha I think this is some sort of owl, he's a very funny looking but handsome bigger

 Goana, australia's wanna-be komodo dragon

 Very serious looking tiny monkey

 And another koala, because, you know, they're cute!

 Look at these guys! They're called cassowarys and are super cool. Like an emu crossed with dinosaur

 This peacock came to check out my campsite  haha

 The one issue with swimming up here was the crocs, you had to go find very cold springs in order to safely swim

 On the road again!

 Definitely in desert. Theres donkeys, camels, and horses all in one paddock with about two blades of grass

 Ayers rock! (Aka Uluru)

 My noble steed Rocky

 Got to go on a sunrise camel tour of Ayers rock

 The Olga's (aka Kata Tjuta)

 Along the base of Ayers Rock, some cool big caverns around it

 The Olga's

See that one big rock in the middle of nowhere? That would be Ayers Rock haha

 And we start the journey south!

 To Coober Pedy

 Doesn't look like much but...

 Most of the town in actually underground!

 People have their whole houses underground!

 It's mainly an open mining town

 With their own underground church

Kinda funny, this is the first tree planted in the town, built out of scrap metal

 And the journey continues! Except... I hit a kangaroo and broke my headlight

 Drove through a big area used for testing rockets and missiles and all that fun stuff!

 Saw a couple salt lakes too, no water to be seen

 Until I got to Eyre Peninsula in South Australia! Look!!! Theres penguins and sea lions!!!!

 And sharks hehe

 Most of the beaches had white :sand" which were actually broken sea shells

 I do believe Eyre Peninsula has had the most stunning coast line I've seen, absolutely incredible, so fun to just drive along and be amazed at God's creation

 It's an oyster farm!

 Starfish

 Big funny birds that I can't think of the name of... something like abalone but not...

 And! I got to go scuba diving with great white sharks! This guy I got to see underwater!! I wish I could put videos up on here, I'll work on editing one to show some underwater pictures

 Lochness monster haha

 White kangaroos!!! Haha they look like giant white rats

And the journey continues east into Victoria

 You know that pink Himalayan rock salt? It's all a scam, comes from this pink salt lake! Haha once again, no water to be seen in this lake

 Waterfall in the Grampians National Park

 This buck was wandering around the parking lot, not too worried about getting hunted here!

I promise we are getting close to the present 

 Welcome to the Great Ocean Road! This was my first stop, the Bay of Islands

 London Arch

 Californian redwoods, no idea how they ended up in Australia though

 So green in the rainforest!

 12 apostles, probably the biggest tourist attraction on this route

 Gibsons steps

 Loch are gorge

 Haha these bushes have limestone roots!

 Thunder cave, the walking path goes right along the top and you would never guess there was a massive sea cave beneath your feet

 The arch (I think they were running out of creativity when naming the different formations)

 The grotto

Such a cool place! And we shall continue to follow this road and wherever else the wind blows! 12 more days till I get to fly home!